Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 41, Ed. 1 Monday, February 27, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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Fresh Shipment
Garden Seed
in the hulk—and ready to
plant in that spring garden
FLOWER SEED
Sweet Pea Seed (Spencer mixed) in the
bulk—and complete line package
Gower seed.
Gulf Stale Tomato Seed in Sealed Packages
TIMPSON PHARMACY
T1MPSON, TEXAS
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THE MIL! MS
Entered as second class met-
ier April 17, 1906, at the poet-
office at Timpson, Texas, un-
der the Act of March 3, 1879.
T. J. MOLLOY - - - - Editor
S. WINFREY - Business Mgr.
• A THOUGHT FOR *
• TODAY
• __ •
• Talent uses opportu- *
• nities; . genius makes '*
• them.—Joan Panin. *
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POLITICS
“Politics—The science and
art of government.”
—Webster’s Dictionary.
“Measures, not men, have
always been my mark.”
—{goldsmith, i
The growing spirit of har-
mony between business and
government gives renewed
confidence to the business
world. A better understand-
ing of business on the part of
political leaders, and a deeper
interest in Government on the
part of business men, promise
better days for American
progress. The new teamwork
is fortunate for everybody. ;
business men have been too
prone to "keep out of politics”
and to fail to understand
trends in polities. They have
been too timid under criticism
by politicians.
Chambers of Commerce have
long accepted as a fundamen-
tal of their work that they
must stay out cf politics. This
is generally accepted to mean
that the organization will not
support or oppose any candi-
date for election or political
appointment. However, the
large group of business men
enlisted in Chambers of Com-
merce—the group that pays
most of the taxes, creates jobs,
contributes most to charity
and provides most of the lead-
ership for the development of
town and country—should cer-
tainly be deeply concerned
about public affairs and legis-
lation that affects the general
business welfare. Who has a
better right or a clearer duty
to be interested in politics, in
its broad meaning, than this
group that has most at stake in
the government.
An important change In the
Constitution of Texas was ef-
fected recently by less than
five per cent of the qualified
voters. Business men, gener-
ally, were too busy to vote. An
organized minority changed
the law of the State and the
result will affect business
men’s taxes for many years.
It is the first duty of citi-
zenship to be interested in
politics. The successful busi-
ness man should make his
views felt and by his coopera-
tion assist in the sound prog-
ress of government. The pub-
lic is again recognizing that
business enterprise built the
country and that business men
are not disfranchised as citi-
zens because they are success-
ful.
Recently a group of distin-
guished business leaders were
called together to discuss the
affairs of the State. Many of
them, heads of great enter-
prises, stated that they were
not sufficiently informed about
the State’s affairs to discuss
them.
Chambers of Commerce
should be schools of citizen-
ship with their members well
informed and active for sound
principles of government
—Hubert M. Horrison.
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Consolation
“What do you think of the
candidates?”
"Well, the more I think of
them the more pleased I am
that oniy one of them can get
in.”—Exchange.
Aha!
"Ycur communism is stupid.
If everything were divided to-
day, in a very short time your
portion would be gone. What
then?”
“Divide again!”—Exchange.
No Fooling!
It may ram, and it may pour,
It may keep you—mode your door—
But I have a car and a driver, too,
And we're all real anuinos to service you.
Either to supply year foods, or your errands
Just give us a ring and we’ll soon have it
What shopping troubles you have, just
make them all mine—-
Fll make them a pleasure — my phone’s
Number NINE!
Gordon Weaver
Phone 9
GROCERIES
Back o’ the Flats
By PERCY CROSBY
“MdiUd! 1/ it alright for Willie to put butter
on bi/pofalarf like the Soardep? ”
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HOUSE
and
HOME
By Mary E. Dague
While the ground is firmly
frozen, fore-handed gardeners
have a load or two of manure
carted into the garden and
spread where it is most need-
ed. If this job is left until
spring the paths and borders
are tom up unnecessarily by
the trucks or wagons and
horses going back and forth,
t t t
If you are planning to do
some redecorating this spring
take plenty of time to study
your rooms and try to visual-
ize what a change will mean.
AH walls of a room need not
have the same treatment, al-
though the colors should har-
monize. For example, you
have one wall of your living-
room or dining room given
over to a fireplace flanked on
either side by open shelves for
books or china.
You may want to hang a
picture over the fireplace and
use bric-a-brac on the mantel
shelf.
You feel this treatment pre-
cludes the use of. a figured pa-
per in the room but even so you
bave a longing for a patterned
wall covering. Now before
you give up your pet paper,
consider long and seriously the
idea of painting and fireplace
wall a solid color, one that har-
monizes perfectly with the pa-
per, rugs and draperies.
Perhaps the background of
the paper is the color to choose
for the paint. I saw a bedroom
the other day papered in a gay
flowered paper but with plain
panels left on the opposite
walls to take care of framed
family photographs.
t t t
Do you know that the color
of flower and leaf of house
plants improve if the plants
are watered with weak soot
water? And instead of empty-
ing ash trays in the fireplace,
throw the left-over tobacco in-
to water. This solution used
for watering houseplsnts keeps
the soil in good condition.
The leaves of many foliage
plants mu3t be washed. If the
leaves are very dusty sponge
them off with a soft cloth using
tepid water with a l-'“T ----
dissolved in it. Then ■ f ■
clear water. Ferns grow best
if they are sprinkled both over
and under their foliage every
day.
t t t
I know a very clever woman
who keeps a notebook in which
she puts down her friends’
likes and dislikes in food, lit-
erature and sports. Hobbies,
birthdays, anniversaries,
names and ages of children all
are kept systematically index-
ed. So it’s easy when, enter-
taining to serve favorite foods
and choose pleasant topics for
conversation.
clothes overcome cramps.
Hair from combing the head
is always burned to keep off
headeches. {
Babies’ clothes for six
months are put on feet first to
keep them from becoming
stunted.
Parents bite their children’s
finger nails to keep them from
stealing.
Snake skins, wore as belts,
prevent lumbago, while the oil
from snakes and fishing
worms, locally applied, stops
pain and inflammations.
Blood from black eats and
black chickens, works won-
ders for skin ailments.
Pans cf water placed under
the bed overcome night sweats.
Nutmegs carried in. the
pants pocket stops indigestion,'
while castor beans in one's hip
pocket overcome colic.
We may laugh at these pe-
culiarities but wise city folks
observe as many foolish cus-
toms as do these simple moun-
tain people.
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derwood, Remington portable,
Underwood portable, Oliver
for models 9, II, 5 and 1,
Corona four, L. C. Smith,
Royal. Timpson Printing Co.
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Palace Theatre
Superstitions
For thirty-four years Dr.
Joseph L. Miller has been
practicing his profession
among the miners, moonshin-
ers, lumbermen, crop-share
farmers and other hill-billies
of a mountainous section of
West Virginia.
Like ail country practition-
ers he does everything for his
patients from surgery to medi-
cal care of their diseases. In
these years he has brought
thousands of babies into the
world, under conditions which
arc far from ideal, yet strange
to relate, due to their natural
hardiness, his mortality rate
has been exceptionally low.
Like most physicians, prac-
ticing among such people who
have little money, more . than
half of his patients are unable
to compensate him for his
services, but they receive the
same treatment and courteous
consideration at his hands, as
his paying clientele.
One of his greatest difficul-
ties is overcoming the superst:
tions which are born and bred
in these simple folk. He has
compiled a long list of some of
them, which he gave me, and
which I herewith reproduce.
Asafetida, a vile smelling
drug, suspended in a bag about
the neck keeps away such dis-
eases as measles, diphtheria,
whooping cough, mumps,
croup and scarlet fever, while
a bit of brown glass on a
string about the threat pre-
vents goitre.
Kernels of red eorn carried
in the pocket prevent hemor-
rhages and form blood clots in
wounds so that one will not
bleed to death.
For nose bleed, the blood is
allowed to run on an axe,
which is then stuck in the
ground or in a tree.
Copper rings or plates of the
same metal in the shoes keep
away rheumatism.
A dirty, greasy dish rag
passed over a baby’s face pre-
vents convulsions.
Sheep bones carried in the
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S- COBB
TIMPSON
LAST TIME TODAY
GARY COOPER
Says: 'Tm only a cowboy and
don’t know much about wom-
en .. , but I figure they’re Kke
horses. You gotta break them
gradual-Uke.”
In
“The Cowboy
A® the Lady”
A down-to-earth story for real
folks!
—with—
Merle Obenm and Patsy Kelly
Also Movietone News
Tueeday-Wednesday
“Fenny Nile”
(TWOFOOlfc)
HANK LOUEETTE
and
BETTY GRABLE
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CONFESSIONS”
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March 2-3
LUE5E RAINER
‘THE GREAT WALTZ’
March 4-6-6
MICKEY ROONEY
In
“OUT WEST WITH
THE HARDYS”
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The Higher Education
By IRVIN & COBS
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A Medium's husband — announced if eaytns prascas wished te
liaison with the shade of some departed dear one, Madnm
would do her best to oblige. Pram the body of the bowse spoke up
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Meyer vot died in Winaw lest year.”
Mr. Bofalsky at the East
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he stated, “to speak s few words with tay Uncle
Madam west off again’into a trance. Then was a breathleee
cause. Then the black calico draperies of the cabinet were agitated fey
a mysterious wind and from its interior n muffled voice issued, saying:
“Hulks*(Jade*Me^n? said Mr. Rofalsky. "Haw is it by yawl"
“Fine. How ere things with you, nephew?”
“I couldn’t complain.”
Another pesae ensued. Mr. Kofelaky was thinking deeply.
"Unde Meyer,” be said at length, "van mere question I shsmld
like it to ask you?”
■proceed, my dear oepbew."
“Whore aid yon learn to speak English?”
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 41, Ed. 1 Monday, February 27, 1939, newspaper, February 27, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth812266/m1/2/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.